Meta’s aggressive push to make its AI assistant ubiquitous in its apps continues to pay off. Meta AI is on the verge of passing its next milestone, with “nearly 600 million” monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg shared. Meta AI, which started last fall, passed in October.
The update came with the release of the latest Meta model of Llama 3.3 70B. According to Meta, the latest text model “has the same performance as the Llama 3.1 405B model,” but comes at “a fraction of the cost.” Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of Productive AI at Meta posted a chart on X showing that Llama 3.3 scored higher on several benchmarks compared to Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 and OpenAI’s GPT-4o .
Introducing Llama 3.3 – the new 70B model brings the performance of our 405B model but is easier and more economical to run. Using the latest advances in post-training techniques including popular online optimization, this model improves performance significantly in… pic.twitter.com/6oQ7b3Yuzc
– Ahmad Al-Dahle (@Ahmad_Al_Dahle) December 6, 2024
Zuckerberg also briefly teased the next big release. “Next stop is Llama 4,” Zuckerberg said on Instagram, after noting that the 3.3 release was “the last big AI update of the year.” So far Zuckerberg has been tight-lipped about what will happen in Llama 4, although he has offered some hints. The CEO earlier this year said the model was being trained for a batch of more than 100,000 H100s with an expected release of one of the “smaller” Llama 4 models “sometime early next year.”
